Beschreibung

This book presents the cure glasses in France during the period 1850 - 1950.At a time when vine is in fashion, the author, doctor of medicine, here prefers to drink water! But not just any water... and not in any glass! He erects the cure glass, a medical and artistic object, as a symbol of hydrotherapy.Taking advantage of the very mysterious power of waters, it takes you in a small tour of France of hydrotherapy through its cure glasses, from the Pyrenees to the Alps and from the Jura to the Massif Central through Lorraine...The most beautiful glasses of French cures from the 19th century to the present day are photographed and replaced it the thermal environment thanks to the writers of the 19th century.